Salaf: Ancestral Seeds (2025) by Nouf Aljowaysir
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Nouf Aljowaysir

b. 1993, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Salaf: Ancestral Seeds2025

Generative images and video trained on the Salaf dataset

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Courtesy of the artist and Gazelli Art House

Nouf Aljowaysir explores how bodies interact with technology and images, reconstituting the formation of identity under conditions of migration and displacement. Moving between the art and technology worlds, she examines how digital systems are designed and the cultural and social consequences they produce. Focusing on our evolving relationship with algorithms, she directs intimate questions to these tools of ‘intelligence,’ using the exchange to reflect not only on herself but also on how such systems shape our ways of seeing and thinking.

Aljowaysir has been awarded residencies at ThoughtWorks Arts and Somerset House. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and festivals such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China; Photo Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland and the Tribeca Film Festival, New York, US.